Homophobia

//ˌhəʊ.məˈfəʊ.bi.ə// noun

noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Hatred, fear, aversion, or prejudice towards homosexuals. countable, uncountable

    "He lost his racism when he worked with a black man in Chicago. He lost his homophobia when he was befriended and looked after by his gay neighbors, a doctor and a nurse, in Little Rock."

  2. 2
    A pathological fear of mankind. obsolete, uncountable
  3. 3
    prejudice against (fear or dislike of) homosexual people and homosexuality wordnet
  4. 4
    Hatred, fear, aversion, or prejudice towards LGBT+ persons in general. broadly, countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    Deliberate misspelling of heterochromia. Internet, alt-of, countable, deliberate, humorous, misspelling, uncountable

    "A beautiful cat with homophobia in her 💙 eyes 🧡"

Synonyms

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anthropophobiaanthropophobiacisphobiagay hategay-hategaycism

Example

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"Today is International Day Against Homophobia."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From homo- (short for and prefix of homosexual) + -phobia. Coined by American psychologist George Weinberg in 1971 in Society and the Healthy Homosexual.

Etymology 2

Latin homo (“man”) + -phobia (“fear”)

Related phrases

liberal homophobianazi germany

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